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45 Fresh Blog Ideas and Prompts! (#AWBU)

At the inaugural Arkansas Women Bloggers (#AWBU) conference in 2011, we suggested that the nearly 50 women in attendance stop by two giant white boards on the way to and from their cabins to share tips, tricks, resources and ideas. The result was a plethora of tools and fresh perspective for bloggers to enact to make their sites more interesting, visually pleasing, interactive and effective – along with names for someone at the conference to share details.

Here I am after AWBU 2011 and the exhausting task of translating all your great handwritten ideas into French…(Source: GraphicsFairy.blogspot.com – one of my favorite tools!)

At the 2012 Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged conference presented by Healthy Families at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas just a few short weeks ago, we took that idea up a notch: we organized a full session called 45 Ideas in 45 Minutes designed to get the attendees’ collective thoughts flowing. The results were fantastic, and we wanted to be sure that all of our attendees had access to these ideas as they return home and work to freshen up their blogs.

The results of gathering 75 women bloggers: information overload!

So… I’ve done all the homework for you by staring at the whiteboard photos, squinting to make out the varying marker colors and handwriting and looking up all the resources to provide you with easy links. Without further ado, please find below a bullet pointed list of this year’s whiteboard chaos (would you believe there were exactly 45 items with no editing on my part?!) Enjoy, and tell me all about what you incorporate into your own blog in the coming months.

I totally hear you, Amanda. Honestly, the idea came from sitting in Fawn & Natalie’s session feeling overwhelmed – realized we needed to get some good recaps out there for y’all. Hope it is helpful!! Your site is looking super cute, by the way. :)

Eeeeee! (That’s my excited squeal) I just took a look at Woobox and now I can do some pretty amazing things for my mom’s business page! Super excited! Now to go check out the rest of the things on the list! Thanks for the tips!